Meanwhile, Death Valley might be the most famous example in the U.S. Technically, this very hot and dry desert is a rain shadow of both the Sierra Nevada mountains and the Pacific Coast Range.

SACRAMENTO—Sacramento received a month's worth of rain in just 24 hours on Friday, while Northern California's Sierra Nevada mountains saw blizzard-like conditions as an atmospheric river ...

Snow is expected to fall across the Sierra Nevada early next week as a storm from the Gulf of Alaska pushes into California and the rest of the West Coast, bringing a likelihood of light rain to ...

bringing “significant mountain snow” in the Sierra Nevada and a higher possibility of rain in the Northern Central Valley, according to the National Weather Service. The NWS issued a Winter ...

The storm-weary West will not catch a break from the rounds of travel-disrupting rain, wind and mountain ... natural wall created by the Sierra Nevada, the tall mountain range will still squeeze ...

California's drought conditions improved after early winter storms brought widespread rain and much-needed snow in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Nearly 98 percent of the state remains in at least ...

The statewide Sierra Nevada snowpack, which provides nearly ... that are expected to bring considerable amounts of snow and rain for at least a week — a key boost to improve the state’s ...